Sun
After I learned of Project Blackbox I got excited... real excited. Anyone who has been around Sun in the Bay Area will recognize in the video the building behind it: the Executive Briefing Center on the Menlo Park Campus. I live across the bridge so I kicked my Volvo S70 T5's turbo into action and flew across the bridge. And I found what I sought.... It is really real. On the net the thing looks like a gag... a complex and complete ...
Holy crap! I mean... what else is there to say? Holy crap!
[thumper3:/splash] root# time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k & [thumper3:/splash] root# zpool iostat 1 capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- splash 11.2G 20.0T 96 289 11.3M 34.6M splash 11.2G 20.0T 0 4.15K 0 531M splash 11.2G 20.0T 0 3.98K 0 509M splash ...
[europa:/] root# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,7458@1/pci11ab,11ab@1/disk@0,0 1. c0t1d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,7458@1/pci11ab,11ab@1/disk@1,0 2. c0t2d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,7458@1/pci11ab,11ab@1/disk@2,0 3. c0t3d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,7458@1/pci11ab,11ab@1/disk@3,0 4. c0t4d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,74...
Things are changing at Sun and the future is looking bright as Sun starts to put its engineering muscle behind storage, an area of the business that was more about partnerships and rebadging than engineering brainpower. That's changing though, largely because of ZFS and that only makes it more interesting to see what I ran across today... Jeff Bonwick, Sun distinguished engineer and chief architect of ZFS, is speaking at 2006 Storage Develo...
Released today and billed as the "New Generation of Modular Storage", Sun has given the world two new mid-range storage solutions complete with the beautiful Galaxy look. The StorageTek 6140 Array and StorageTek 6540. First things first, the StorageTek 6140 Array. Its a 16 disk 4Gb/s Fibre Channel array, features dual controllers and the ability to mix-and-match SATA and FC disks in a single enclosure. The brick comes in two configs, ...
Sun Cluster 3.2 has finally entered beta! I'm not sure that I'm allowed to publicize the feature set but its looking really exciting. I'm furthermore excited to say that the Sun Cluster team has allowed me to invite people into the beta! Now, to be clear I can't authorize people, only invite which means that I push your name along to the fellow that will give you the thumbs up or down. But, what this means is that if you are a Sun ...
Several of us were talking in #opensolaris tonight and couldn't be sure whether or not you could install the Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 in a non-global zone. So I figured I'd try it: ... checkinstall[SUNWuti]: installation not permitted in local zone Installation of was suspended (administration). No changes were made to the system. utinstall: fatal, SRSS installer installation failed So... no, without hacking on this thing ...
Sun is providing early access to Sun Ray Software 4 Update 1 - Early Access Release. On a sad note, its only available for Linux (RHEL and SUSE). Based on the notices it would appear that most if not all the improvements for Update 1 are specifically for Linux and thus why Solaris isn't included in the EA release. Just a reminder for those of you as forgetful as I am, "Sun Ray Software 4" is in fact (currently) Sun Ray Server Software ...
I sort of dropped the ball on coverage of the recent Network Computing rollout. I spent the morning in ER after Tamarah smooshed her finger and her fingernail kept the wound from healing. It hurt like crazy and she didn't sleep all night but Tuesday morning we got her all fixed up and she was feeling better by that afternoon. I think we've all smashed our fingers at some point and know how much that sucks. I was bummed to miss the event ...